Welcome to SoHo Strangler Week by Murdwell. To accompany the series, here's a few

extra details from the police files and the court records, to age your enjoyment and

maybe even help you crack the case. This episode is about how commonplace the murder

of prostitutes is. It's kind of interesting when you look at something like Jack the

Ripper, if you didn't know true crime and you looked at the amount of coverage it gets,

you would assume that that is the only time in history when prostitutes were murdered.

But unfortunately, that's far from true. 37% of those murdered in the United Kingdom

are associated with sex trade. So if you are a prostitute or an escort girl or anything

like that, it's highly likely that you will be a victim of murder. But also because of

the clandestine nature of the sex trade, it's less likely that your murder will ever

be solved. So it's unfortunately, it's incredibly common. It's too more common than any other

member of society except those who are under the age of one. Unfortunately, they are the

category of victim that is the highest. They're more murdered than any other section of society.

That wasn't even good English there, but you know what I'm talking about. Second is prostitutes.

And it's kind of tragic in a way that I hate to use the word fall and women. I'm using

air quotes around that. But no one seems to care about a murdered prostitute. You can

kind of see it with Jack the Ripper where the way these women have been kind of cast aside

and all we care about is their name, age, collection of injuries. And they are really

just a prop in order to guide us towards the mystery of who this serial killer could be.

But in a way, when you look at it and you can kind of see that with, you can kind of

see that with the earlier victims of Jack the Ripper and you can see that the same with

the so-or-strangler as well with French Fifi that if her death could have been entirely

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